MURDER, IN SONG

Author Karolina Waclawiak stops by Sara Gran and Megan Abbott’s Medicine Show to discuss “Murder, In Song,” an exploration of murder ballads. Included is an examination of “Ladies In Love” from the Anchored EP.

Schmid’s chilling proclamation that “ladies should never fall in love,” is sung sweetly, like a lullaby by DeRosa. And Schmid’s poetic line about women’s voices “being like small animals waiting to be fed” is seemingly easier to take here, layered and somber…